A Doctor in Auschwitz by Gisella Perl A Plea for the Dead by Eli Wiesel
Alicia: My Story by A. Appleman-Jurman All But My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein
Bondi's Brother by Irving Roth Dawn by Eli Wiesel Day by Eli Wiesel Deadly Carousel: A Singer's Story of the Second World War by Monica Porter Destined to Witness by Hans J. Massaquoi Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Five Chimney's by Olga Lengyel Hannah's Suitcase by Karen Levine Holocaust by Bullets by Father Patrick Desbois
Images From the Holocaust: A Literature Anthology by J. Brown, E. Stephens and J. Ruibin In My Hands Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke
In the Shadow of Death: A Young Girl's Survival in the Holocaust by Miriam Greenstein
Last Lullaby:Poetry from the Holocaust Edited and Translated by Aaron Kramer
Literature of Destruction Editted by D. Roskies Maus I and II (Graphic Novels) by Art Spiegelman Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli Night by Eli Wiesel Number the Stars by Lois Lowry On Both Sides of the Wall by Vladka Mead Plot: the Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion by Will Eisner
Refuge Denied:The St. Louis Passengers and the Holocaust by Sarah A. Ogilvie and Scott Miller
Rena's Promise: Two Sisters in Auschwitz by Gelissen and Macadam Salvaged Pages, Young Writers Diaries of the Holocaust by Alexandra Zapruder Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust by Allan Zullo and Mara Rozines The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi
The End of the Holocaust by A. Rosenfeld The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow by Krystyna Chiger, David Paisner
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness by Simon Wiesenthal Tapestry of Hope by Alice Kern Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics by Jeremy Schaap We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust by Jacob Boas Wishing Upon a Star: A Tale of the Holocaust and Hope by Eline Hoekstra Dresden Your Name is Renee':Ruth Kaap Hartz's Story as a Hidden Child in Nazi-Occupied France by Stacy Cretzmeyer Yellow Star by Jennifer Rozines Roy
Teaching Resources
Echoes and Reflections: A Multimedia Curriculum on the Holocaust
Further Reading (for Teacher's Background Knowledge)
Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M. Edsel Arts in Nazi Germany: Continuity, Conformity, Change Edited by Jonathan Huener and Francis R. Nicosia Nazi Ideology and the Holocaust by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Not your Father's Antisemitism: Hatred of the Jews in the 21st Century Edited by Michael Berenbaum Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military by Bryan Mark Rigg The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black Holocaust Poetry by H. Schiff Making Sense of the Holocaust: Lessons from Classroom Practice by S.A. Schweber Teaching Holocaust Literature and Film by R. Egglestone and B. Langford Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust by M. Hirsch and I. Kacandes The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Tapestry of Hope: Holocaust Writing for Young People by L. B.N. Watts What Matters: The World's Preeminent Photojournalists and Thinkers Depict Essential Issues of our Time by David Cohen
Videos
Shoah By Claus Lanzmann (January 10, 1986) NPR Discussion (25th Anniversary 1-10-11) Video Through Yahoo Search
Miracle at Midnight
Assisi in Silence
The hidden network by the clergy of Assisi that saved persecuted Jews during WWII
As Seen Through These Eyes
Study Guide for As Seen Through These Eyes
Maya Angelou narrated documentary of artists who documented their experience in concentration camps Escape from Auschwitz (PBS) Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (PBS)
Learning resources The Train
Art Train - Rose Valland (Watch at Fancast)
Rape of Europa
Looted/Stolen Art (Based on book Monuments Men)
Irena Sendler: In the Name of their Mothers
PBS video about Polish Catholic woman who relocated Jewish children and kept their names so they could be reunited with their families The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
No. 4 Street of Our Lady
Story of a Polish Woman who his her Jewish neighbors. Based on diary of a survivor
Schindler's List
Paperclips
Defiance
Sophie's Choice
Anne Frank Remembered
Escape from Sobibor (1987)
Victory (1998)
I'm Still Here (Documentary based on Salvaged Pages)
Holocaust (1978 miniseries)
Holocaust Films for Children and Teens
List compiled by Professor Lawrence Baron, Department of History at San Diego State University
The films can be rented from Netflix or purchased from the Social Studies School Service, www.socialstudies.com
Nazi Indoctrination and Susceptibility Before the Fall (2004, PG 13, High school for Hitler Youth) Swing Kids (1993, PG 13 German teens in Hitler Youth and jazz revolt) The Wave (1981 PG, psychological experiment with teens) The Wave (2008 NR, psychological experiment with teens) Holocaust Animated Shorts and Features Sarah and the Squirrel (1982 NR) The Hangman (1964 - available on youtube) The Diary of Anne Frank (1995 Japanese anime) Life in the Ghetto The Island on Bird Street (1997 PG-13 boy survives on his own in ghetto) Jacob the Liar (1999, PG 13, Jacob tells lies to help morale in the ghetto) Jewish Christian Friendships A Friendhsip in Vienna (1988, PG, Jewish and Christian friends resist prejudice) Au revoir, Les Enfants, aka Goodbye Children (1987, PG) Anne Frank Movies Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001 TV-14) The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank (1988 NR) Diary of Anne Frank (1959 NR) Diary of Anne Frank (2009 NR) Rescue Hidden in Silence (1996, PG, rescue of Jews by Polish girl) The Hiding Place (1975, PG, rescue of Jews by evangelical Dutch Christians) Miracle at Midnight (1998, G, rescue of Jews in Denmark) Miracle at Moreaux (1986, G, rescue of Jewish children by nuns) Schindler's List (1993, R, industrialist saves over 1,000 Jews) Humor and Satire The Great Dictator (1940, NR, Jew exchanges places with Hitler-like dctator) Life is Beautiful (1997, PG-13, father tells son survival is a camp is a game) The Nasty Girl (1991, PG 13, German girl exposes her town's Nazi past) Children in Concentration Camps The Boy in Striped Pajamas (2008, PG-13, German boy befriends Jewish boy) Jonah Who Lived in the Whale, aka Look to the Sky (1999, 6th grade and up) Naked Among Wolves (1963, 6th adn up, boy is hidden by camp inmates) Christian Resistance Amen (2002, NR, Christian resistance, but Papal indifference) Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace (2000, NR, Pastor plots against Hitler) Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005, NR, students resist Nazism) Jewish Resistance Defiance (2008, R, Jewish partisans in occupied Russia) Uprising (2001, PG-13, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising) Reliving A Past One Has Not Lived A Call to Remember (1997, how the parents' trauma is passed on to their sons) Devil's Arithmetic (1999, PG-13, Teen time travels to concentration camp) Everything is Illuminated (2003, PG-13, Journey to Ukraine revives the past) I Love You, I Love You Not (1996, PG-13, Teen lives grandmother's memories) The Past in the Present and the Future Anne B. Real (2003, PG-13, young rapper inspired by Anne Frank) Evil in Clear River (1988, PG-13, mother battles teacher who denies Holocaust) Forget Me Not: The Anne Frank Story (1996 skinhead meets Anne Frank) Freedom Writers (2007, PG-13, Inner city teens inspired by Anne and Miep) Not in My Town (1997, PG-13, Montana town resists Neo-Nazis) Skokie (1981, PG-13, Holocaust survivors try to prevent Neo-Nazi protestor) X-Men (2000, PG-13, modern day persecutors want to exterminate mutants)
Reading for Students
A Doctor in Auschwitz by Gisella PerlA Plea for the Dead by Eli Wiesel
Alicia: My Story by A. Appleman-Jurman
All But My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein
Bondi's Brother by Irving Roth
Dawn by Eli Wiesel
Day by Eli Wiesel
Deadly Carousel: A Singer's Story of the Second World War by Monica Porter
Destined to Witness by Hans J. Massaquoi
Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Five Chimney's by Olga Lengyel
Hannah's Suitcase by Karen Levine
Holocaust by Bullets by Father Patrick Desbois
Images From the Holocaust: A Literature Anthology by J. Brown, E. Stephens and J. Ruibin
In My Hands Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke
In the Shadow of Death: A Young Girl's Survival in the Holocaust by Miriam Greenstein
Last Lullaby:Poetry from the Holocaust Edited and Translated by Aaron Kramer
Literature of Destruction Editted by D. Roskies
Maus I and II (Graphic Novels) by Art Spiegelman
Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli
Night by Eli Wiesel
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
On Both Sides of the Wall by Vladka Mead
Plot: the Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion by Will Eisner
Refuge Denied:The St. Louis Passengers and the Holocaust by Sarah A. Ogilvie and Scott Miller
Rena's Promise: Two Sisters in Auschwitz by Gelissen and Macadam
Salvaged Pages, Young Writers Diaries of the Holocaust by Alexandra Zapruder
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust by Allan Zullo and Mara Rozines
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender
The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi
The End of the Holocaust by A. Rosenfeld
The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow by Krystyna Chiger, David Paisner
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman
The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness by Simon Wiesenthal
Tapestry of Hope by Alice Kern
Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics by Jeremy Schaap
We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust by Jacob Boas
Wishing Upon a Star: A Tale of the Holocaust and Hope by Eline Hoekstra Dresden
Your Name is Renee':Ruth Kaap Hartz's Story as a Hidden Child in Nazi-Occupied France by Stacy Cretzmeyer
Yellow Star by Jennifer Rozines Roy
Teaching Resources
Echoes and Reflections: A Multimedia Curriculum on the HolocaustFurther Reading (for Teacher's Background Knowledge)
Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M. EdselArts in Nazi Germany: Continuity, Conformity, Change Edited by Jonathan Huener and Francis R. Nicosia
Nazi Ideology and the Holocaust by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Not your Father's Antisemitism: Hatred of the Jews in the 21st Century Edited by Michael Berenbaum
Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military by Bryan Mark Rigg
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer
IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black
Holocaust Poetry by H. Schiff
Making Sense of the Holocaust: Lessons from Classroom Practice by S.A. Schweber
Teaching Holocaust Literature and Film by R. Egglestone and B. Langford
Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust by M. Hirsch and I. Kacandes
The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Tapestry of Hope: Holocaust Writing for Young People by L. B.N. Watts
What Matters: The World's Preeminent Photojournalists and Thinkers Depict Essential Issues of our Time by David Cohen
Videos
Shoah By Claus Lanzmann (January 10, 1986)NPR Discussion (25th Anniversary 1-10-11)
Video Through Yahoo Search
Miracle at Midnight
Assisi in Silence
The hidden network by the clergy of Assisi that saved persecuted Jews during WWII
As Seen Through These Eyes
Study Guide for As Seen Through These Eyes
Maya Angelou narrated documentary of artists who documented their experience in concentration camps
Escape from Auschwitz (PBS)
Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (PBS)
Learning resources
The Train
Art Train - Rose Valland (Watch at Fancast)
Rape of Europa
Looted/Stolen Art (Based on book Monuments Men)
Irena Sendler: In the Name of their Mothers
PBS video about Polish Catholic woman who relocated Jewish children and kept their names so they could be reunited with their families
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
No. 4 Street of Our Lady
Story of a Polish Woman who his her Jewish neighbors. Based on diary of a survivor
Schindler's List
Paperclips
Defiance
Sophie's Choice
Anne Frank Remembered
Escape from Sobibor (1987)
Victory (1998)
I'm Still Here (Documentary based on Salvaged Pages)
Holocaust (1978 miniseries)
Holocaust Films for Children and Teens
List compiled by Professor Lawrence Baron, Department of History at San Diego State UniversityThe films can be rented from Netflix or purchased from the Social Studies School Service, www.socialstudies.com
Nazi Indoctrination and Susceptibility
Before the Fall (2004, PG 13, High school for Hitler Youth)
Swing Kids (1993, PG 13 German teens in Hitler Youth and jazz revolt)
The Wave (1981 PG, psychological experiment with teens)
The Wave (2008 NR, psychological experiment with teens)
Holocaust Animated Shorts and Features
Sarah and the Squirrel (1982 NR)
The Hangman (1964 - available on youtube)
The Diary of Anne Frank (1995 Japanese anime)
Life in the Ghetto
The Island on Bird Street (1997 PG-13 boy survives on his own in ghetto)
Jacob the Liar (1999, PG 13, Jacob tells lies to help morale in the ghetto)
Jewish Christian Friendships
A Friendhsip in Vienna (1988, PG, Jewish and Christian friends resist prejudice)
Au revoir, Les Enfants, aka Goodbye Children (1987, PG)
Anne Frank Movies
Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001 TV-14)
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank (1988 NR)
Diary of Anne Frank (1959 NR)
Diary of Anne Frank (2009 NR)
Rescue
Hidden in Silence (1996, PG, rescue of Jews by Polish girl)
The Hiding Place (1975, PG, rescue of Jews by evangelical Dutch Christians)
Miracle at Midnight (1998, G, rescue of Jews in Denmark)
Miracle at Moreaux (1986, G, rescue of Jewish children by nuns)
Schindler's List (1993, R, industrialist saves over 1,000 Jews)
Humor and Satire
The Great Dictator (1940, NR, Jew exchanges places with Hitler-like dctator)
Life is Beautiful (1997, PG-13, father tells son survival is a camp is a game)
The Nasty Girl (1991, PG 13, German girl exposes her town's Nazi past)
Children in Concentration Camps
The Boy in Striped Pajamas (2008, PG-13, German boy befriends Jewish boy)
Jonah Who Lived in the Whale, aka Look to the Sky (1999, 6th grade and up)
Naked Among Wolves (1963, 6th adn up, boy is hidden by camp inmates)
Christian Resistance
Amen (2002, NR, Christian resistance, but Papal indifference)
Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace (2000, NR, Pastor plots against Hitler)
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005, NR, students resist Nazism)
Jewish Resistance
Defiance (2008, R, Jewish partisans in occupied Russia)
Uprising (2001, PG-13, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising)
Reliving A Past One Has Not Lived
A Call to Remember (1997, how the parents' trauma is passed on to their sons)
Devil's Arithmetic (1999, PG-13, Teen time travels to concentration camp)
Everything is Illuminated (2003, PG-13, Journey to Ukraine revives the past)
I Love You, I Love You Not (1996, PG-13, Teen lives grandmother's memories)
The Past in the Present and the Future
Anne B. Real (2003, PG-13, young rapper inspired by Anne Frank)
Evil in Clear River (1988, PG-13, mother battles teacher who denies Holocaust)
Forget Me Not: The Anne Frank Story (1996 skinhead meets Anne Frank)
Freedom Writers (2007, PG-13, Inner city teens inspired by Anne and Miep)
Not in My Town (1997, PG-13, Montana town resists Neo-Nazis)
Skokie (1981, PG-13, Holocaust survivors try to prevent Neo-Nazi protestor)
X-Men (2000, PG-13, modern day persecutors want to exterminate mutants)